[Leica] The other M5

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

This M5 made by another nice German Company 452 km - 280 Miles down the
street in Munich, Germany. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
European route E45 is the name of the street.

4 hrs 7 minutes by car if your going the speed limit.
I know! non sequitur!

European route E45 connects Finland to Italy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_route_E45
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Road_E45_between_Sorsele_and_Slagn?s.jpg
Or
http://tinyurl.com/6chme9

They have a new Auto Ego out today on the internet and will be in the Sunday
NYTimes tomorrow with the car stuff. I did the photography.
A BMW M5 is the car. Owned by a fella who drives a big brown UPS truck by
day. 
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/automobiles/collectibles/04EGO.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/6qtl3r

I had a honking 14mm 2.8 Nikor on a D40x in my LowePro Sling 200 but never
got that urge to get it out. Shot the whole thing instead with a Nikon
24-85mm f3.5-4.5D AF-S. Which I'd not used on a car before and was longer
than what I'd used before by quite a bit.
A gem of a lens no longer made as of last year and better than the non AFS
24-85mm f/2.8-4D IF made now.**
Which turns into a 35-125mm with the 1.5 crop circle factor on my formidable
carbon black D200.
I got to see Yankee Stadium for the first time not from an airplane!!!!!!!!!
But this area of the Bronx is quite nice. The sunny day before the Pope
arrived the whole area was scrambling. All in all a wonderful experience.
I never knew about such a car as a BMW M5.
Wish I could have shot it with my Leica M5! They have things in common.
Scan it with my Nikon 5000.

But that's a Leica body which is in my future.
I'm glad to be able to look forward to future bodies.

I shot a roll with an M5 once with a Noctilux in a dark restaurant in
Boston.
A great support system for that lens. And visa versa.




**
http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/2485af.htm

Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com